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AlteredEgo

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  • No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites

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  • I was thinking of the Gemini (protocol) - Wikipedia but a bit more elaborate, and yeah I'm not sure how far text compression can be pushed. But I think LLMs could be useful and help reach a critical mass of being able to download and store tons of articles.

    Torrent V2 and other official extensions Updating Torrents Via DHT Mutable Items allow some ways to do this. Like hosting a youtube channel and updating it with new videos, without any new network protocol. Well theoretically since this isn't yet supported well in torrent clients or lib.

    I've been thinking how this would work for a while but it's kind of frying my brain haha. Like a "P2P version control database" that is truly open source. For articles and blog posts, but also for metadata for manhwa, movies, tv, anime, books etc. Like anybody can download and use it and share, edit, fork it without needing to set up some complex server. Something that can't be taken down, sold or if abandoned someone else can just pick it up and you can merge different curated versions and additions easily.

    You'd basically want a "most popular items of the past X time" that almost everybody downloads, and then the whole database split into more and more exotic or obscure items. So everybody has the popular stuff but also has to host some exotic items so they don't get lost. And it has to be easy to use and install.

    But the whole database has to be small and compact and compressed enough that you can still easily host it on a normal HDD. It the current times with economic and political dangers lurking this would be a crucial bit of IT infrastructure.

  • Kapitalism

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  • People, in general, do not work for material gain. They work because they have to in order to live, procreate and raise their children. People want a minimum amount of prosperity and economic safety. Beyond that, they want to work in a way and a place that fulfills them. Work itself is fun when done right, and working with others is awesome. Not even the "smart ones" or whatever work mainly for material gain in general. There are an overwhelming amount of counter examples to any variation of your claim. It would be more accurate to say people work for fame and glory, or to get laid (again reproductive success).

    But even if what you said was true, it does not justify a complete monopoly. You could have something like "congrats you patented a new idea - if it catches on you will get a free house as a price!"

    Of course you know all this and are just arguing facetiously. If "the person who can solve climate change" does anything but trade stocks they would contradict your argument. There is no money in inventing climate solutions. But nice insult to the people who are working on things like that.

    Your actual argument is that we reward gambling and non-productive activity too much. That the smartest people are not working towards the survival or wellbeing of humanity, but for... crumbs off the table of the capitalists. That our economic system is not efficient in working towards our shared human values.

  • Kapitalism

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  • Patents mean genocide.

    They slow down adoption of innovation and raise prices to levels the market can afford. With the existential need to change and improve like 50% of all industrial processes, this results in too slow change. It never mattered if climate change is anthropogenic or not.

  • No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites

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  • That is just stupid. How about a slighly more complex markdown.

    What I really want is a P2P archive of all the relevant news articles of the last decades in markdown like in firefox "reader view". And some super advanced LLM powered text compression so you can easily store a copy of 20% of them on your PC to share P2P.

    Much of the information on the internet could vanish within months if we face some global economic crisis.

  • Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts

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  • I bought an oled phone for 200€ a few years back. What I'd really want is that every smartphone sold in the EU is open, with open drivers and OS with root access if you want to. And some investments by the EU to support open smartphone OS.

    What a shithole civilization.

  • AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You

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  • I couldn't remember it either. I described it to deepseek in order to find it. Ironically it mistakenly thought

    the short story you're thinking of is almost certainly "Nanny" by Cory Doctorow. It's part of his collection Radicalized (published in 2019)".

    If you find it, let me know. I think I might have been conned by deepseek.

    Why the Mix-Up?

    • Both works critique technology-driven capitalism, but Doctorow's focus is distinct:

      • Radicalized targets corporate control via IoT devices, insurance cruelty, and policing 612.
      • Manna explores algorithmic worker management leading to dystopian/utopian outcomes.

    • I incorrectly merged these narratives due to overlapping themes of technological oppression. My apologies for the oversight.

  • Am I the only one who thinks social media has destroyed the spirit of the internet?

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  • Throughout history, every village had one idiot, two max. And maybe one psycho.

    Today thanks to the power of the internet these idiots and those psychos can unite and create big communities and represent a strong unified force in the world.

  • AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You

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  • They would generate strategies that maximize their objective function based on the training data. Obviously garbage in garbage out, but my point is they would not be prone to certain irrationalities like humans.

    It might be possible to regulate how AI CEOs are optimized and trained though. You can tell a human CEO a thousand times "we only have one earth, if you all externalize your cost we will all die and have zero profits" but an AI might actually get it. AI might also be connected to a kind of crowdsourced democratic economic global forum, where people can discuss, complain and make suggestions.

    AI also has a much higher bandwidth and might catch institutional problems much easier because it doesn't have to rely on summaries of subordinates to understand how things are going.

    More broadly, it might be theoretically impossible for humans to act according to our shared values - no matter what rules, institutions, education or culture we create. Like "theoretically impossible, the system always degenerates" because individual humans will always follow their own greed and lust for power while pretending to comply, and then using that power to slowly pervert the system and it's rules. I believe that is the root of our current malaise. But even non-sentient AI might be able to help us just enough to make it work. It's much more likely that those in power will use it for the opposite, but that shouldn't stop us from thinking about if it can be used for good.

  • AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You

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  • People are a resource that keeps regenerating after all.

    That's what the AI would call "sustainable business practices"?

  • SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight

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  • I've been wondering why they don't blow up more regularly. I imagine a few long range sniper shots would make them explode easily. They should be relatively easy to hit, seeing how big they are.

  • AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You

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  • I suspect an AI CEO would be more rational and science driven, instead of believing in some ideology that says workers have to feel desperate to be most productive or something. It's possible they'd look at science and then raise the minimum vacation time so people are more productive and generate more profit.

  • AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You

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  • Huh I read a dystopian short story about AI micro-managing workers, constantly telling them what to do next to optimize productivity. It ends with near "perfect" dystopian wealth concentration. While in another part of the world they used AI to create a utopia.

    Oh it was called Manna by Marshall Brain

    The gradual takeover of jobs by AI (starting with fast food), The warehousing of the unemployed in state-controlled facilities, A techno-utopian alternative (Australia) where AI liberates rather than enslaves.

  • With Version 9.0 Release, ONLYOFFICE Becomes an Even Better Choice for Linux Users

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  • Yes, but remember what Microsoft Windows 10 is named after. That's really weird and hostile too!

  • Some Democratic senators regret voting to confirm Kristi Noem as DHS secretary

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  • The democrats focus on LGBT, women and immigrant issues. Ultimately the big money will only come for causes that benefits big money, so you have to find other causes to distract from that.

  • Bannon Says He’s Advising Trump to DEPORT Elon Musk Immediately

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  • His followers believe in inequality so they actually love when he does outrageous, stupid or illegal things.

  • Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates

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  • Once we have proper self driving cars none of these recent "innovations" like that or the speed limiting would matter.

    Ideally self driving cars would also be without a steering wheel and just be half width with a single seat or two seats facing each other to reduce energy requirements. You could just develop this with a manhattan style project and test it in a single city banning all other private cars except delivery vehicles.

  • Bannon Says He’s Advising Trump to DEPORT Elon Musk Immediately

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  • Not sure which is which though. There are some suggestions that the Plutocrats like Musk, Thiel and others basically want feudal thiefdoms where they can use workers and people and do whatever they please. Bannon afaik is a statist. Trump doesn't really believe in anything, and wouldn't care if he's President, Chairman or Emperor.